Sharing the movie experience with a theater full of people can
be exhilarating or frightening—sometimes
both. You put yourself in the hands of the filmmaker
to take that ride, not knowing where or how it’s going to
end.

In rare cases a movie can provide an audience with an ecstatic,
transcendent experience, almost religious in its power that leaves
you walking on air afterward and running back to grasp that
experience again.

Sometimes the audience isn’t ready for that story or
style and the shared experience with the audience is much darker
and marked with disapproval…and sometimes outright
hatred. It’s as if the film has committed sacrilege
against your expectations for it.

When that happens in a horror film is it the fault of the film
or filmmaker, or the audience not prepared for the
“horrible-beautiful” imagery and storytelling that
challenges the comfort zone?

In this episode we discuss religious and sacrilegious
experiences in movie theaters, and the unwritten pacts that
audiences make with filmmakers, and how the shared experience in a
theater affects your own experience of the film

Movies Discussed:

In 1895, the Lumiere Brothers showed their film “Arrival of a
Train at La Ciotat Station”.

This is S.A. Bradley, and I’m a life-long horror lover. This
podcast combines horror history, personal observations, common
themes, and cultural trends to tell a story with each episode.
Here we talk about all things horror. Horror movies,
books, comics, hosts, conventions.

The door swings wide here, and all types of horror are
welcome. Each episode covers some aspect of horror with lots
of viewing or reading suggestions for you to check out. I
want to start conversations with people about all types of
horror.